Mystery of the Cyclops vanishing ship explored
The Cyclops, a 19 000 ton collier, disappeared after leaving the British West Indies for home in March 1918. Officials offered no conclusive cause, with theories ranging from engine trouble to submarine attack, while a key mystery involved Alfred Moreau Gottschalk and a mysterious Rio clipping. The case remains one of history's enduring maritime enigmas.
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Navy Department
Daniels Tssued
Cyclons
British West Indies
Jong
Cyclops
Alfred Louis Moreau
Gottschalk
Consi
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Brazil
Coasi
Fifth Regiment
New York
Rio Élro
Secret ‘Service
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Auiong
Germany
Avery Veasé
Sone
Corning
Aride
West Indies
Namles
Noron le
Boston
Gyelops
Night Ride Turns Odd as Laird Loses Creep
A Scottish laird and his servant Sandy ride home after drinking. At a ford a bank slips and the laird falls in. Sandy searches the shallow water and finds the horse’s head, then they realize the rider is wrong way round. The horse moves backward as the laird commands.
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Taird
Sandy
Chicago
The Cree Indians Lose Will to Live Under Canadian Rule
A Hudson Bay correspondent for the London Times quotes dire claims about Cree wards within Canada. He notes government payments of five dollars yearly and says the Cree are dying out due to excess drinking tobacco use and tuberculosis. The piece portrays the community as honest yet morally weakened, with fragile, weathered faces fated to fade.
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Canada
Indiana
Hudson Bay
London Times
Caste Pride and Sacred Taboos in India Observed by a Visitor
In Asia Magazine Gertrude Emerson notes caste pride shaping daily life in India. She recalls a Ganges morning at Benares with pilgrims and a holy man reacting to shadowed rowers, and Jaipur prison kitchens where high caste inmates are served separately.
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India
Bakshish
Benares
Ganges
Ganga
Ang
Jaipur
Gan
Gertrude Emerson
Asia Magazine
Big sister’s Beau as College Athlete Teaches Tobacco Habit
A playful family scene centers on a college athlete who boasts that all athletes chew tobacco. He improves the lesson by a wink to a meter reader as the kids discuss growing up. The little brother warns the sister and threatens to tell their father about the tobacco habit. He’s banished from the room.
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Beau
Uncle Bob
Little Brother
Moonlight brightness differs by phase more than expected
The New York Herald notes that the full moon emits much more light than the half moon, about nine to one, based on selenium cell measurements by Stebbins and Brown. They attribute the difference to varying reflection angles from the Moon’s rough surface across phases from first quarter to full and from full to last quarter.
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Stebbins
Brown
New York Herald
Indian Dances and Osage Elder Featured in Oklahoma News
A scene from an Indian Dance at 107 is recounted with a humorous episode about an autos' balking and a crowd of children watching. Barelegs, claimed to be 107, the Osage elder in Greyhorse, participates in dances wearing blankets and moccasins, riding a horse and rarely a car.
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Greyhorse
Oklo
Clams Reproduced by Spawning Similar to Fish
The text describes clams propagating through fertilized eggs in water, hatching into larvae called veligers that swim briefly before settling to the bottom, attaching to seaweed. Spat grow to inch size and mature to spawn in May and June.
Compass Faults and the Gyro Compass in Ships
The article explains that a magnetic compass deviates from true north and is affected by nearby metals, while the gyro compass provides stable direction. It describes the gyro device and its harbor behavior, then quotes Sir Patrick Manson urging open-minded discovery and noting his recent death.
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Patrick Manson
Patrick
Vaccine statistics fragment hints at totals and figures
A fragmented OCR line presents numerous numbers such as 365,611 32 2,003,686 63 319 and 12,000 17,000 45,500 with a later 2,722,760 67, suggesting a compiled dataset. No clear context or entities are identifiable beyond these numeric tokens.
Undivided profits statement wording confusion
A garbled financial filing text outlines how individual deposits and various certificate types relate to undivided profits after expenses. The fragment includes signatures and oath language claiming accuracy to the best knowledge and belief.
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Certi
How France Honors Actors and The Comedie Francaise
Election to the Comedie Francaise is France’s highest acting honor. The association supports French stage classics with twenty four associates sharing profits, half in cash and half reinvested for retirement. Forty pensionnaires work until made associates, while the company receives a fifty thousand dollar yearly subsidy from the French government.
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France
Comedie Francaise
Why Rosewood Is So Called
Rosewood is not from a rose tree but from several tree species. It earned its name for a rose scent and rosy color. One variety comes from Suriname and is very fragrant, another from Brazil, the Dalbergia species, according to Samuel J. Records of Yale. A Honduran rosewood is considered the best for xylophone bars.
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Surin
Brazil
Samuel J. Records
Yale
Honduras
Seaside Sunshine Boosts Child Metabolism Report
Medical research notes from Cretiar hospital show children exposed to sea air have metabolism about 40 percent higher than indoors. Scientific American cites seaside activity increasing bodily production fivefold for walking along the shore and eight to tenfold from swimming.
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Medical Research Council
Cretiar Hospital
Scientific American
Tree Makes Marriage Altar In San Saba Texas
A huge live oak in San Saba known as the matrimonial altar has long hosted weddings under its spreading boughs. Local tradition says couples tied the knot beneath its limbs long before white settlement, with many June ceremonies still performed there despite a road it spans.
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San Saba
Tex
EH. McNatt
Little Dan Cupid
Jungle toll rises as floods drive wildlife into villages
A Washington Star report notes India pays a heavy tribute from floods and wildlife. Deaths from snakes and beasts increase yearly with elephants 55, bears 108, leopards 851, wolves 818, tigers 858, and other animals 66, totaling about 25,000 fatalities including 22,478 snake bites.
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India
Washington Star
Trust Fund for Parrots Denied by New York Court
The Appellate Division overruled a $500 trust for two parrots from the late George Hart, theatrical lawyer of New York, directing executors to give the birds to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to be treated tenderly. The rest of Hart's will was upheld, including a $12,000 bequest to the Society for Ethical Culture for sex hygiene teaching to children.
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George Hart
New York
Supreme Court
American Society For the Prevention of
The
Society For Ethical Culture For
Lord Robert Ceell aims to extend voting age to women under thirty
The article notes a bill in parliament seeking to grant the vote to women under thirty and highlights officials' focus on the small number of women aged thirty to forty in the country. It presents the political proposal as a response to perceived demographics.
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Robert Ceell
London
Paris Dressmaker Lets Employees Choose Gowns
A Parisian dressmaker annually selects a gown from his stock for each of the women in his employ and has it made up to her directions, showcasing custom fashion at the house.
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Drestes
Lote
Referees Offer Private Sale Of Avert Schoonover Estate Property
Referees L. W. Lovell and H. S. Richardson, appointed by the Jones County Iowa district court, announce a private sale of farm and town lands belonging to the heirs of the late Avert J. Schoonover. Included are two farms total 260 acres in Wayne township plus a family home in Anamosa and two timber tracts in Scotch Grove township. Sale location Monticello Iowa.
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Jones County
Iowa
Avert J. Schoonover
Wayne Township
Pacey Taser
Anamosa
Shaw
Scotch Grove
Monticello
L. W. Lovell
H. S. Richardson
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